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Post · February 4, 2010

Some tips on using git with Windows

The .NET open source community has really started to embrace git in the past few months. Ayende has moved pretty much all of his open source work over to...

Post · October 22, 2009

Ping, VPN, etc from Windows XP Mode

I just wanted to share a quick tip on something that had been tripping me up. I've happily been running Windows 7 x64 for around a month now. At work, our VPN...

Post · February 19, 2008

Vista lets you use forward slash at the command prompt!

I was just setting at a command prompt in Vista on my laptop and I typed cd / out of habit and, to my surprise, it worked! Not only that, but tab completion...

Post · September 28, 2007

Weirdness with process names on Win2K

One of the banes of my existence (okay, not that bad but fun to say) is supporting Windows 2000 at work. Yes, there are still Win2K machines out there - not...

Post · April 13, 2007

Shell extension to rebuild solutions quickly

Ever want to build Visual Studio solutions quickly, but without having to open Visual Studio or pulling up a command prompt and typing msbuild on the solution?...

Post · April 12, 2007

DDE isn't really dead

Scott Hanselman recently posted about a bug that can occur when using Firefox as your default browser. The root problem deals with Outlook trying to start up...

Post · February 21, 2007

My Vista stability score is way down lately...

Check this out... My Vista stability score was well on its way back to 10 when I got hammered with some hard crashes in Internet Explorer. It took me a while...

Post · January 29, 2007

Vista Fun!

Windows Vista has been released for public consumption! That makes it sound like Vista is some sort of sandwich or something... I thought that the official...

Post · October 21, 2006

Installing GhostDoc on Vista

I recently installed GhostDoc 1.9.5 on Vista RC2 at home. At first, I received as error towards the end of installation so I searched around a little bit to...

Post · October 10, 2006

New Windows OneCare Beta! And it works in Vista!

I'm a big fan on Windows OneCare. I installed the betas and was thoroughly impressed at it. I recently posted in frustration, though, that the current version...

Post · October 3, 2006

Why can't I move my public folders in Vista?

I recently moved my documents from my C: drive over to my D: drive at home. My C: drive is a 10,000 RPM Raptor drive, which is insanely fast, but doesn't...

Post · October 3, 2006

Fun with ISOs and Vista RC2

I recently updated my Vista installation to RC2 (build 5744), which went fairly smoothly for me. The installation went even better than for RC1, because I had...

Post · September 29, 2006

Documents and Settings still exists in Vista...

If you've seen some of the Vista screenshots lately or even installed the RC1 for Vista, you will undoubtedly have noticed that Windows Vista makes use of the...

Post · September 22, 2006

Windows Vista Secrets!

As some of you may know, I recently installed RC1 of Vista on my home PC. For the most part, it has been a great experience. I had some early problems because...

Post · September 8, 2006

Some thoughts on User Account Control (UAC) in Vista RC1

Last night, I finally completed my install of Vista on my home machine. I sort of wish I had taken the clean install route instead of the upgrade path, because...

Post · September 8, 2006

Windows One Care doesn't work in Vista RC1...

Windows One Care doesn't work in RC1, but they've still included it in the "Offers from Microsoft" section of Vista's welcome center. That's sort of annoying,...